Archive for August 11th, 2007
Aug
11
Google Inc. and other search engines face far more than just a new rival in Wikia Inc.;they face the prospect of hundreds, even thousands of new competitors.
The entire search-engine project that Wikia is working on will enter the open-source domain, drastically reducing the cost for just about anyone to make a search engine,
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Aug
11
While Microsoft is still praying that its latest API, DirectX 10 will 'convince' people into buying Windows Vista the OpenGL Architecture Review Board has officially announced OpenGL 3.
Unveiled at SIGGRAPH in San Diego, California, OpenGL 3 is the official name of the project previously known as OpenGL Longs Peak. According to the Khronos Group OpenGL 3
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Aug
11
Windows Vista crashing and burning is the worst case scenario, but a scenario nonetheless, and even more than that, a viable possibility. If Windows has taught us anything, especially Windows XP, it is that there is a thin line between a completely functional operating system one minute, and a perpetual error status the next. Windows XP
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Aug
11
It's no secret that there's a leaked beta of Vista SP1 floating around, but no-one yet has really taken the time to analyse it in detail to find out what it really does.
I made it my mission this weekend to trawl through the registry and file changes in SP1 to find out as best
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Aug
11
The opening session here at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle this morning is by Robert Steele, a former Marine Corps intelligence officer, CEO of OSS.Net Inc. and, as he describes himself, "the world's most pissed-off end user."
Among other things, Steele disputed Bill Gates' past characterization of open-source software as "communist." Responded Steele: "If open-source software is
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Aug
11
Google Pack, the collection of applications recommended by Google for a new PC, includes an office suite: StarOffice, a proprietary software developed by Sun. In 2000 Sun released StarOffice's source code, which became the foundation of OpenOffice.org, an open source project sponsored by Sun.
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Aug
11
This has to be UMPC scoop of the year. Hugo got hold of the HTC Shift for a few days and had the chance to test it out and make a video. At last we have some REAL info on the device:
I had The HTC Shift for a little over 60
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Aug
11
Mahalo Follow is a new toolbar that allows you to view Mahalo's human-powered search results next to the results from the major search engine of your choice or have them appear in response to pages you view on the web.
Mahalo Launches With Human-Crafted Search Results from me in
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Aug
11
Google's feed reader has an option to sort the feeds by relevance. It's only available if you go to "All items" and select "Sort by auto". The cryptic name should mean that Google Reader "prioritizes the items based on their importance to you" by analyzing your reading patterns.
This is
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Aug
11
Opteron-based servers with one, two, or four processors are all over the place, but server manufacturers rarely experiment with more exotic chip counts. However, the folks at The Inquirer have spotted an Opteron server that packs three chips, each with two DIMM slots, on a custom motherboard.
Said server is capable of gobbling up to 16GB
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Aug
11
Add gBox Inc. to the growing list of online music services hoping to chip away at iTunes's dominance.
The Cupertino, Calif., startup was forced out of a stealth mode when Universal Music Group announced late Thursday it would test sales of some digital music without the customary copy-protection technology.
Under the program, gBox will get referrals through
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Aug
11
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is backing Microsoft's effort to certify Office Open XML as an international standard.
The U.S. standard body said on Friday that it has voted to conditionally approve Office Open XML (OOXML) pending some technical concerns in an upcoming standards approval vote.
NIST is part of the committee that will establish
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Aug
11
Google Inc. is shutting down a service that sold and rented online video, ending a 19-month experiment doomed by the proliferation of free clips on other Web sites such as the Internet search leader’s YouTube subsidiary.
New York Times reports that "Universal Music Group will sell a significant portion of its catalog without the customary
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Aug
11
When AMD first launched the Radeon HD 2600 XT, we were told that versions of the card with GDDR3 memory would have an 800MHz memory clock. Cards are now available on the market, but with the exception of factory "overclocked" models, 700MHz seems to be the memory clock of choice. In fact, every stock-clocked Radeon HD
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Aug
11
BlogWorld & New Media Expo is the first and only tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media.
The 2007 conference inaugural event will take place in Las Vegas November 8th and 9th at the Las Vegas Convention Center with an
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